with Laura Vanderkam and Sarah Hart-Unger
Jul 28
The Decluttering Episode: Comparing Styles, Progress Updates & More! EP 469
In today's episode, Sarah and Laura chat all things decluttering! Sarah has made home decluttering a goal for many years running, and has learned a lot from a slew of different methods but has struggled to implement these techniques in her home. This year, though, she added some ... Show More
39m 22s
Jul 21
Take Back the Day: Beyond Sunday Resets with Jordyn Koveleski Gorman EP 468
In today's episode, Laura and Sarah open with a discussion of 15 minute meals, and then Laura interviews Jordyn Koveleski Gorman, a speech language pathologist and founder of Eat Play Say, a resource for parents of babies and toddlers and a treasure trove of practical advice for ... Show More
35m 59s
May 2024
The Economics of Parenting, with Emily Oster
<p>Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University, but she is probably best known as the author of the bestsellers 'Expecting Better' and 'Cribsheet', which crunch the research about the often gut-driven practice of parenting. Today on the show we talk about research ... Show More
34m 7s
Jan 2021
Daily Dad and Emily Oster on Rational Parenting
On today’s episode, Ryan has a wide-ranging conversation with professor and economist Emily Oster. They talk about how to balance your life with children, how to communicate positive messaging, how the American government handled the pandemic, and more.Emily Oster is a professor ... Show More
53m 1s
Aug 2021
Emily Oster, "The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years" (Penguin, 2021)
In The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years (Penguin, 2021), Brown University professor of economics and mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework for data-driven parents to think more deliberately about the ... Show More
49m 32s
Aug 2025
173. Prof Emily Oster on Good Data, Bad Data, and the Truth About Parenting in High-Stress Careers
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Wall Street Skinny, Kristen and Jen sit down with Professor Emily Oster, a Harvard-educated economist with a PhD and a faculty position at Brown University where her studies focus on approaches to finding causality in observational data, as ... Show More
1h 28m